Two piece crank club

[SnowDrift]

I guess I'm a member...

Can someone point me in the direction of what the next step is? Initially, I was thinking Optimizer, but didn't fall in love with the $7400 price tag. I guess if someone knows of a used one I could pick it up or have it shipped.

Open to ideas.

 

[ak diesel driver]

Yeah my 96 is in that club.

 

[MrMarty51]

Yeah my 96 is in that club.

Did that happen with the fluid dampener upgrade ?

 

[jrsavoie]

I guess I'm a member...

Can someone point me in the direction of what the next step is? Initially, I was thinking Optimizer, but didn't fall in love with the $7400 price tag. I guess if someone knows of a used one I could pick it up or have it shipped.

Open to ideas.

I recently saw a fairly low mileage drivable for sale fairly reasonable. - under 150,000 miles, under $2,000

I would be looking for something like that.
I've always rather bought a used vehicle and swapped as opposed to just buying an engine.

I'd rather buy running used than a rebuilt. I never had much luck with rebuilt stuff.

 

[ak diesel driver]

Did that happen with the fluid dampener upgrade ?

No stock original dampener

 

[Wreckinball67]

My crank didn't break but, my block was cracked at the #7 cylinder. I bought the Optimizer and never looked back. My original mileage was only 93k so I figured my truck (1/2 ton) was worth the cost of a new motor. I looked at like this; many hot rodders spend 10's of thousands of dollars on "old" cars so $7500-8000 on an already nice truck made enough sense to me...good luck with your decision and keep us posted!

 

[Will L.]

@SnowDrift
What was the story with the harmonic balancer?
How many miles on original and how often replaced?

 

[SnowDrift]

Around 180,000 - probably original. My roll of the dice didn't do so well. I've been planning to give you a call this week about all this, but keep getting tied up with other things.

 

[Stoney]

@SnowDrift I'll ask my brother. We got 3 trucks with good 6.5s in them sitting in the field. Broke frames, bad tranny etc reasons. What year is yours

 

[SnowDrift]

Mine is a '95

 

[SnowDrift]

Any advice on getting to the top two bell housing bolts? We were hoping to leave the transmission in place but the top two seem to be hiding well.

Also, what does the bracket look like that holds the fuel lines? One bolt goes to the second bell housing bolt, but it seems like there is another bolt holding it. Maybe one of the upper two i can't access right now?

 

[dbrannon79]

you'll have to pull the starter, exhaust cross over, and torque converter to flexplate bolts out. then the top two bell housing bolts can be a bugger to get at, but a short socket and ball swivel on a long extension and impact usually does the trick. just put a floor jack under the front side of the trans before lifting and pulling on the motor.

the fuel lines should only have an eyelet up on the drivers side top bellhousing bolt. once that is out and hoses disconnected, it's game on for pulling.

 

[btfarm]

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[SnowDrift]

10-4. I wasn't sure. Sorry about that, btfarm.

Engine is out, either way.

 

[SnowDrift]

Harmonic balancer rubber looked exceptionally good in my estimation. I didn't think to take a picture, but will try to get one tomorrow. The pulley looked good, too.

 

[SnowDrift]

The pulley rubber didn't look bad to me and the harmonic balancer didn't look bad to me, either. Regardless, there are three cracked webs - one of which was cracked on both sides. The one cracked on both sides is the one closest to the broken crank.